Securing device for clothing



May 3, 1932. 5. DAVID SECURING DEVICE FOR CLOTHING Original Filed Oct.3, 1930 5M 9M I Mad/0M Patented May 3, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICESARA. DAVID, 015' WEST VIEW, PENNSYLVANIA SECURING DEVICE FOR CLOTHINGOriginal application filed October 3, 1930, Serial No. 486,114. Dividedand this application filed September My invention consists in a securingdevice for clothing, and is useful particularly in holding anundergarment in place beneath an outer garment. This constitutes adivision of my co-pending application, Serial No.

486,114, filed October 3, 1930.

A device embodying the invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. I is a View in side elevation; Fig.

II is a fragmentary view, showing a portion of the device in elevation,from a point of View at right angles to that of Fig. I; and Fig. IIIsimilarly illustrates another portion of the device.

The device includes a safety pin 1, a snap fastener consisting of twoparts 2 and 3, and a loop-forming member 4.

The safety pin is essentially the safety pin of familiar construction,and as such is shown in the drawings. The snap fastener is essentiallyof familiar type, and includes a socket with laterally-yielding rim, anda stud adapted to enter the socket and to be held in place in the socketby the yielding rim. The socket part is the part indicated by thenumeral 3, and the stud part is the part indicated by 2.

Such parts, ordinarily, are provided with with marginal holes, by whichthey are sewed to garments. I do not so secure them, and accordingly nosuch holes are shown. One of the two parts which together constitutethis snap fastener may be, and in Figs. I and III is shown to be,connected to and integrated with the safety pin 1.

The loop-forming memberA consists of a suitable length of flexiblematerial. In this" instance I show it to be formed of a chain, and inthe particular embodiment which I have used this is a chain of sixteenlinks to the inch. This loop-forming member is at one end secured to thesafety pin 1, and at the other end it is secured to the socket part ofthe snap fastener.

The safety pin is of usual construction, and

4| includes a bar, to which the numeral 1 is immediately applied, and tothis bar, at one end,

the pointed shank 13 is pivoted. This pivoting is ordinarily effected bymaking bar and shank of one length of wire, coiled to a spiral I0 midwayits length. The opposite end of the Serial- No. 560,725.

bar as formed is provided with a keeper 11, within which the pointed endof shank 13 may be brought and retained by the spring tension of thespiral coil alluded to. The bar 1 and the shank 13 swing angularly intheir common plane. The loop-forming member 4 is linked to the coilalluded to, and a hood 12 may be provided, and welded to the structure,to keep the coil from spreading. One of the two parts of the snapfastener, in this instance the stud part 2, is rigidly secured to thebar 1 of the safety pin and at the end of the bar opposite to the coil;and it is so secured that the axis of the snap fastener, the line ofstress in which the parts of the fastener are assembled and separated,is perpendicular to the plane in which the bar and shank of the pin lieand swing. From this particular arrangement several advantages spring.One is that, when the device is applied, the otherwise flexible loop,formed by chain 4, includes a rigid element, namely, the body of the pinitself. This rigid element in the otherwise flexible loop preventsobjectionable crushing and crumpling of fabrics secured. Anotheradvantage is that the strains of opening and closing of the snapfastener are exerted in a direction in which the safety-pin structure isrigid and unyielding. Facility in use is not disturbed nor diminished bya yielding of parts, which, in one plane, is an essential characteristicof a safety pin.

The device is primarily intended for securing in place beneath an outergarment the shoulder straps of an undergarment of womens wear. In use,the safety pin may be pinned to the outer garment, and this willordinarily be done through the shoulder seam and from the inside, sothat the body of the safety pin remains quite invisible on the outside.The chain is then looped about the shoulder strap of the undergarment,and the parts of the snap fastener are snapped together. \Vhenthe'shoulder strap of the undergarment has so been looped within theloop-forming member of the device, it is held against slipping down inan objectionable way; It is not necessary to unpin the device inundressing; it is suflicient merely to open the snap fastener. If theouter garment is a 100 washable garment, the whole device may be removedby unpinning it before the article goes to the wash. I do not limitmyself to particular dimensions, but in an embodiment of the inventionwhich I have employed with success, the safety pin is of an inch long,and the chain is 3 inches long and is of about sixteen links to theinch.

I claim as my invention v A securing device for clothing including incombination a safety pin, a snap fastener, and a loop-forming member,one part of the snap fastener being secured to the safety pin with itsaxis disposed perpendicularly to the plane in which the parts of thesafety pin swing and the loop-forming member being attache at one end tothe safety pin and at the other end to the other part of the snapfastener.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

SARA DAVID.

